“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.”
“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
“I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.”
“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”
“To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.”
“Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.”
“Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.”
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
“When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.”
“He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”
“If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
“It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.”
“Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!”
“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
“You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.”
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.”
“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.”
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.”
“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”
“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.”
“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.”
“Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”